Bill Madden of the New York Daily News writes that Jason Bay can thank his agent, Joe Urbon, for pricing him out of a good situation in Boston. With no obvious bidders remaining for Bay besides the New York Mets, Madden says that Urbon returned to the Red Sox to see if they would revisit negotia...

Hey if Bay wants to play for Boston and win then Theo should tell him fine, but on Boston's terms. Then re offer the fair offer they gave at 4 years. Trade Hermida and use Cameron as the 4th OF and have a very good OF that allows you to rest the starters a little bit more over the season.
I rather have Bay as the everyday LF over Cameron.

Bill Madden of the New York Daily News writes that Jason Bay can thank his agent, Joe Urbon, for pricing him out of a good situation in Boston. With no obvious bidders remaining for Bay besides the New York Mets, Madden says that Urbon returned to the Red Sox to see if they would revisit negotia...

The payroll figure isn't very accurate. As is stated at the bottom of the chart, the values are listed as averge per years not the actual 2010 value so guys like Youkilis, Pedroia and Lester who are making less then the average in 2010 drag the total up.
The contracts of Lester, Pedroia, Youkilis and Matsuzaka actually inflate the 2010 payroll by about 11 million because he averaged the salaries

John Lackey's five-year, $82.5MM contract with the Red Sox was officially announced today. Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports tweets the details: the frontloaded deal pays a $3.5MM signing bonus, $18MM in 2010, and $15.25MM in each of the next four seasons. On to some Lackey-related links... WEEI's ...

The Boston Red Sox have designated Chris Carter for assignment, according to a press release. The 27-year-old outfielder played in 13 games for the Red Sox in 2008 and 2009, and was hitless in five plate appearances this season. The New York Yankees claimed him off waivers a month ago in an atte...

The Mets and Red Sox completed the Billy Wagner trade today, according to Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post. Hubbuch says the Mets acquired outfielder Chris Carter and first baseman Eddie Lora to finish the deal. The Red Sox had to wait until the offseason to send Carter to the Mets because of...

Wrong. In 2006 after the final day of the regular season Boston traded Adam Stern to Baltimore as the PTBNL in the trade for Javy Lopez.
10/3/2006 Boston Traded Adam Stern to Baltimore to complete a prior deal for Javy Lopez.

The Boston Red Sox have designated Chris Carter for assignment, according to a press release. The 27-year-old outfielder played in 13 games for the Red Sox in 2008 and 2009, and was hitless in five plate appearances this season. The New York Yankees claimed him off waivers a month ago in an atte...

The Boston Red Sox have designated Chris Carter for assignment, according to a press release. The 27-year-old outfielder played in 13 games for the Red Sox in 2008 and 2009, and was hitless in five plate appearances this season. The New York Yankees claimed him off waivers a month ago in an atte...

7:07pm: Buster Olney has some more color to this "he claimed, she claimed" story. Olney writes in ESPN the Magazine, "The rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox burns strongly even when it comes to waiver claims. "When the Mets and Red Sox worked out a trade for left-hander Billy Wagner ear...

crunchy,
While I dont know for sure I would assume the events went similar to this.
Sometime prior to August 4th or even August 4, the Nationals placed him on waivers.
During the game on August 4 (based on when his DL stint is retroactive to) he was injured and then placed on the DL the next day.
The claiming team put in the claim sometime after he was placed on waivers and before he was put on the DL. One would assume the team had no idea at the time he was hurt either because it came before the injury or after the injury but before it was known how serious it was.
My guess is that the rules would prohibit the Nationals from knowingly sending an injured player to another team on a waiver claim.
If they had allowed it to proceed and the claiming team realized he was hurt and complaint would be filed with MLB.
Eventually Washington would have had to return the waiver fee to the claiming team and likely face a fine from MLB. Aside from that they would also have a bad reputation when it comes to other teams.
Washington did the right thing and I applaud them for not trying any funny business.
Of course such a move wouldn't have been anything new for Washington.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/08/AR2006080801500.html

By placing Austin Kearns on the DL earlier in the month, the Nats missed the chance to shed the $3.4MM remaining on his salary, according to Tom Verducci of SI.com. An unknown team claimed Kearns when the Nats placed him on waivers, so Washington was in a position to shed the remaining $2.4MM on...

2:55pm: According to their team Twitter, the Reds are sending cash to Boston to help cover the remainder of Gonzalez's $5.4MM salary. Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports hears that the Reds are sending $1.1MM along. When you figure in the $500k buyout, there's a minimum of about $2MM remaining on Gonzal...

2:55pm: According to their team Twitter, the Reds are sending cash to Boston to help cover the remainder of Gonzalez's $5.4MM salary. Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports hears that the Reds are sending $1.1MM along. When you figure in the $500k buyout, there's a minimum of about $2MM remaining on Gonzal...

2:55pm: According to their team Twitter, the Reds are sending cash to Boston to help cover the remainder of Gonzalez's $5.4MM salary. Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports hears that the Reds are sending $1.1MM along. When you figure in the $500k buyout, there's a minimum of about $2MM remaining on Gonzal...

By placing Austin Kearns on the DL earlier in the month, the Nats missed the chance to shed the $3.4MM remaining on his salary, according to Tom Verducci of SI.com. An unknown team claimed Kearns when the Nats placed him on waivers, so Washington was in a position to shed the remaining $2.4MM on...

By placing Austin Kearns on the DL earlier in the month, the Nats missed the chance to shed the $3.4MM remaining on his salary, according to Tom Verducci of SI.com. An unknown team claimed Kearns when the Nats placed him on waivers, so Washington was in a position to shed the remaining $2.4MM on...

With the recent injury to Jed Lowrie, the Red Sox have accelerated their search for a big-league shortstop. That search has led them to claim Cristian Guzman from the Nationals, says Nick Cafardo at the Boston Globe. The Nationals can either allow Guzman to be claimed, pull him back from waivers...

Eddie, I think the post is still a bit off. All we know is that Boston put in a claim for Guzman, not that every team ahead of them didn't.
I haven't seen anything that said the Sox won the claim, so realistically any of the 27 teams ahead of them may have also placed a claim.

With the recent injury to Jed Lowrie, the Red Sox have accelerated their search for a big-league shortstop. That search has led them to claim Cristian Guzman from the Nationals, says Nick Cafardo at the Boston Globe. The Nationals can either allow Guzman to be claimed, pull him back from waivers...

Boston isn't going to use Guzman as the lead off hitter if they do in fact get him.
This is the Red Sox and the reason they took Ellsbury out of the lead off spot earlier this season was his OBP. Now that he is constantly around .350 why would they go and drop him to 9th and put a guy at lead off who has a career .309 OBP? Ain't going to happen.

With the recent injury to Jed Lowrie, the Red Sox have accelerated their search for a big-league shortstop. That search has led them to claim Cristian Guzman from the Nationals, says Nick Cafardo at the Boston Globe. The Nationals can either allow Guzman to be claimed, pull him back from waivers...

Some more links as we unwind from yesterday: Bob Ryan at the Boston Globe doesn't like the trade deadline, as he thinks it creates an unfair market for richer teams. Aaron Rowand is comfortable with the Giants' additions and thinks the lineup can lead to a playoff appearance, reports Andrew Bag...

LaRoche has no value for a team selling because he is a FA after the season. On the flip side a team buying would be unlikely to ship a starting pitcher who is an upgrade over what Boston already has.
Likely that Martinez is being acquired more for catcher then 1B

My guess is that all the teams in on Halladay likely kicked tired on Hernandez since they were already discussing boatloads of prospects with Toronto.
Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies, Rangers and Tigers are likely the teams that inquired about Hernandez.

12:22pm: SI's Jon Heyman says the Tigers and Red Sox were among the teams inquiring on King Felix. Rays too, says Joel Sherman of the New York Post via Twitter. 11:14am: The Mariners rejected offers from six different teams for young ace pitcher Felix Hernandez, according to ESPN's Jayson Stark...

According to an update at the link in the post, a deal is expected to be announced in the morning and that Seattle has bought, not sold..... Seriously? Ugh Seattle has no shot at anything this year, what a waste.

1:24pm: Kovacevic reports that the Pirates will pay nearly all of the money owed to Wilson and Snell this year. The Mariners will pay each player $400k. Kovacevic breaks out the calculator and finds that the Pirates will send a total of $3,308,702.19 to Seattle along with Snell and Wilson. 12:28...

Rule #1, never post anything as legitimate without a link to a reliable website...(that excludes WEEI twitter accounts lol) Don't try to beat others to it, make sure you have a reliable source, and clearly we learned tonight the comments section of MLBTR isnt reliable :p

1:24pm: Kovacevic reports that the Pirates will pay nearly all of the money owed to Wilson and Snell this year. The Mariners will pay each player $400k. Kovacevic breaks out the calculator and finds that the Pirates will send a total of $3,308,702.19 to Seattle along with Snell and Wilson. 12:28...

Mike DiGiovanna at the L.A. Times talked to Angels GM Tony Reagins, who said "There are various scenarios we're working on." DiGiovanna says they're still very much in the mix for Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee, but summarizes a bit of news and lists intriguing potential targets should talks for the...

1:24pm: Kovacevic reports that the Pirates will pay nearly all of the money owed to Wilson and Snell this year. The Mariners will pay each player $400k. Kovacevic breaks out the calculator and finds that the Pirates will send a total of $3,308,702.19 to Seattle along with Snell and Wilson. 12:28...

Mike DiGiovanna at the L.A. Times talked to Angels GM Tony Reagins, who said "There are various scenarios we're working on." DiGiovanna says they're still very much in the mix for Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee, but summarizes a bit of news and lists intriguing potential targets should talks for the...